David Pierce

David Pierce is the Army’s Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer (HQDA, G2).  Pierce describes his purpose as 1) breaking silos and leading the Army Intelligence and Security Enterprise from tool-centric to data-centric operations; 2) serving as the executive official for foundational data and AI governance for the Army IC element to deliver high quality VAULTIS and FAIR-principled intelligence data products to the IC/DoD data mesh and across Army warfighting functions; and 3) Aligning strategic data and AI resourcing into Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) 2040.

Pierce spent the first decade of his career as an Army intelligence analyst, instructor, and targeting officer, serving with the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, KS and in Germany and Iraq. He transitioned to the private sector as a targeting analyst for Mission Essential in Kabul, before supporting military and civilian intelligence operations with CACI International. While at Noblis (formerly Elantech Systems), he was an instructor on the JEMA analytics platform for 10 agencies across the U.S. Intelligence Community. He then joined Booz Allen, first supporting the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) and then as a lead associate. Later he worked for Advana and then Amazon Web Services before returning to support the Army as the Army’s IC CDO.

Pierce earned his B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus. He also holds a M.S. in Management Information Systems from Georgetown University.